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Housing Justice and TBI: St. Charles Church in Portland
Listen to this post: With National Brain Injury Awareness Month just around the corner, it’s a big time for organizations to share documentaries and personal narratives around TBI. Mostly, they focus on rehabilitation and recovery, but that’s not really the kind of film work I make. So, I’m thrilled to announce a March 1st screening…
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The #AccessIsLove Campaign: Love it!
Listen to this post: Let’s just start here, with this picture of Mia Mingus, Alice Wong, and Sandy Ho smiling, and with the idea that providing access is a way to demonstrate love. And then, let’s have this short, subtitled video from Alice with more about it. In the video, you have Alice, an Asian-American…
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Disabled And Here: Support this Kickstarter!
There’s some good critiques of the horrible stock photography online that’s supposed to show disability or disabled people. Do you know what I’m talking about? The thin, cisgender, 20-something white person in a manual wheelchair (usually too big or looks like it’s hospital-issued) sitting atop a gorgeous mountain with their arms raised triumphantly in the…
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Stinky Chicken Dog 2 Premiere
Listen to this post: Anyone who’s followed my work for more than five minutes knows that every project I do is about disability culture or experiences, and that almost every film somehow manages to have cats or dogs in it. In my collaborations with other storytellers, if we can get animals in there, we will.…
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2nd annual Disability in Film Blogathon: 50 1st Dates
Listen to this post: I’m so happy to participate in this year’s Disability in Film Blogathon. The blogathon in a nutshell: A bunch of us who love to talk and write about disability representation in film are all posting on our blogs at the same time in honor of Disability Employment Month. I picked a…